Improvement in swings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS E. NOE, oF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWINGS.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS F. Non, of 25 Delaney street, in the city,county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Swings; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description ot' the same, referencebeing had tothe accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure lis a perspective view of a swing hung in a doorway,constructed according' to my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of theswing closed or folded together for convenience in carrying or storage.

My invention consists in a novel construction of a swing with a foldingseat, whereby when in use the seat is prevented from tipping over, andwhen not in use it may be folded vary compactly for trasportation orstorage.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in both ofthe gures.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and apply my invention,I proceed to describe it, having reference to the drawings.

Two pendent ropes, A A, each provided with a suspending hook, a, uponits upper end, are rmly secured to a seat-bottom, B, one at each cornerthereof, either by passing the ends of said ropes through holes in thebottom, as shown in the drawings, and securing said ends by a knot, orby means of ahook attached to the pendant and an eye fastened to thebottom B. There are secured to each pendent rope two obliquebrace-ropes, C and D, the rope C being secured to the pendent rope at c,and running to the rear corner at the some side of the bottom B, whereit is secured in the same manner as the pendent rope A, and the rope Dbeing secured to the pendent rope at d, a short distance above c, andextending to the back E 'of the seat, and secured to the upper cornerthereof. The back E is also provided with a waistband, F, secured to oneside thereof, and sufficiently long to go around the waist otthe childor other person sitting in the swing,and provided with a hook, e, orsimilar device to fasten it to the other side, to which is attachedastationary oriiXed eye, to receive the said hook. The back E is hingedat h h to the rear edge of the bottom B, so that the two can be foldedtogether, as shown in Fig. 2, with the several ropes between them.

When the swing is suspended by the hooks a a, no matter in whichposition the person may sit, it is impossible for the seat to tip over.It' he throws his entire weight on the front portion of the bottom B,the whole support will be by means of the pendent ropes A A; but if hesits farther back, a portion of the weight will be received bythebrace-rope O C, and by them transmitted to the parts of the pendentropes above; or it' he leans backward against the back E, a portion ot'the weight will be transmitted to the upper portion of the pendent ropesby brace-ropes D, which will prevent the seat from tipping over in abackward direction. The waistband will prevent falling out in a forwarddirection. The swing is therefore perfectly safe for youn g children.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A swing with the bottom and back of the seat hinged together, and withpendent ropes A and brace-ropes G D, arranged and connected with eachother and with the bottom and back of the seat, substantially as hereinspecified.

LEWIS F. NOE. Witnesses .HENRY T. BROWN, J. W. CooMBs.

